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historic creeds were in the inakinj^ and the Ecumenical Councils
were fashioning the Chunih's faith and securing it against mis-
understanding. He had the power, in a unique degree, of
revitalising an old controversy, of picturing the figures of the
past who were mere names to most men, so as to show them
living and breathing, and of laying bare the tremendous and
eternal realities which lay behind these age-worn movements.
No one who has heard him describing Turtullian, or Cyprian,
or Augustine, until they moved and spoke again, cuuld fail to
understand the imperishable splendour both of the men and of
the truths which they endeavoured to understand, liut it was
in his exposition of the Reformation movement that Dr
Lindsay found his opportunity. His knowledge of contem-
porary history, his close acquaintance with the social conditions
of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the carefully conserved
results of his researches into the historic memorials and
engrossing documents of the time, together wiih his steadfast
conviction of the value of the Reformation as tlie revival of
religion and the recovery of intellectual liberty, aftorded him
scope for all his powers of clear statement and apt illustration.
His grasp of the principles behind this historic movement was
80 sure and firm, and his perception of their issues so clear,
that every editor and every wise scholar was eager to have his
counsel and any contribution he cared to add to the literature
of the subject. His two volumes on the Reformation will
remain as a standard history to all students who ask a guide
through that difficult period."
Sergeant- Major James Lindsay. — We regret to have to
record the death of Sergeaut-Major James Lindsay, Queen
Victoria School, Dunblane, which took place in September
1916. Sergeant-Major Lindsay had been for a number of
years a member of the Board of Management of the Clan
Society. He had been associated with the 91st Highlanders
for over thirty years ; and many former officers and old
comrades and friends, as well as a large detachment of the
Argylls from Stirling Castle, attended the funeral. Six